Membership Size and Cooperative Performance: Evidence from Ghanaian Cocoa Producers' Societies, 1930–36

Cazzuffi, Chiara; Moradi, Alexander

doi:10.1080/20780389.2012.682380

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“…Among these are Staber (1993), Barron et al (1994), Cazzuffi and Moradi (2012), Arandoa et al (2012), Pérotin (2006), Rousselière and Joly (2011), Nuñez-Nickel and Moyano-Fuentes (2004) (for cooperatives), Chambré and Fatt (2002), Fernandez (2008), Hager et al (2004), Wollebaek (2009), Hung andOng (2012), and Chih-Hui (2014) (for associations and the non-profit sector). Given the great body of research on the topic, we cannot address each in detail (see a synthesis of the works by Helmig et al (2014)).…”

Section: Previous Work On the Survival Of Organizational Forms Of Socmentioning

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Do Hybrid Organizational Forms of the Social Economy have a Greater Chance of Surviving? An Examination of the Case of Montreal

Bouchard

Rousselière

2015

Voluntas

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The objective of this article is to contribute to an understanding of the evolution of a population of social economy enterprises faced with the economic crisis, namely by referring to the case of Montreal. We apply a two-step approach. For one, we use an innovative discrete-time survival model that takes spatial heterogeneity into account. In a second step, this model is used to predict the survival of different forms of the social economy, according to various proposed typologies for identifying hybrid organizational forms. It is understood that certain organizational forms (professional social economy) have fared better than others (emerging social economy). Organizations combining several sources of financing and several forms of paid or volunteer work likewise have greater chances of survival.

L’objectif de cet article est de contribuer à une compréhension de l’évolution d’une population d’entreprises d’économie sociale confrontée à la crise économique, en nous appuyant sur l’exemple de Montréal. Nous mobilisons une approche en deux étapes. Nous utilisons un modèle novateur de survie en temps discret tenant compte de l’hétérogénéité spatiale. Ce modèle est ensuite utilisé pour prédire la survie de différentes formes d’économie sociale, suivant différentes typologies proposées identifiant des formes organisationnelles hybrides. On constate que certaines formes organisationnelles (économie sociale professionnelle) ont mieux survécu que d’autres (économie sociale émergente). De même, les organisations combinant plusieurs sources de financement et plusieurs formes de travail salarié ou bénévole ont eu plus de chances de survivre.

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Section: Previous Work On the Survival Of Organizational Forms Of Socmentioning

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Do Hybrid Organizational Forms of the Social Economy have a Greater Chance of Surviving? An Examination of the Case of Montreal

Bouchard

Rousselière

2015

Voluntas

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“…They find that the price offered by the cooperative compared to traders and additional transaction costs along the value chain negatively affected collective marketing. Lastly, Cazuffi and Moradi (2012) The studies cited above largely pay attention to marginal costs and benefits influencing members' level of commitment to their cooperative. However, socioeconomic factors within the household and at the group level are also important predictors within the context of poverty and patriarchy, in particular when studying women's participation (Kabeer 1999;Fischer and Qaim 2014).…”

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What Determines Women's Participation in Collective Action? Evidence from a Western Ugandan Coffee Cooperative

Selhausen

2015

Feminist Economics

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Women smallholders face greater constraints than men in accessing capital and commodity markets in Sub-Saharan Africa. Collective action has been promoted to remedy those disadvantages. Using survey data of 421 women members and 210 nonmembers of a coffee producer cooperative in Western Uganda, this study investigates the determinants of women's participation in cooperatives and women's intensity of participation. The results highlight the importance of access to and control over land for women to join the cooperative in the first place. Participation intensity is measured through women's participation in collective coffee marketing and share capital contributions. It is found that duration of membership, access to extension services, more equal intrahousehold power relations, and joint land ownership positively influence women's ability to commit to collective action. These findings demonstrate the embeddedness of collective action in gender relations and the positive value of women's active participation for agricultural-marketing cooperatives.

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“…Meier zu Selhausen () uses the proportion of coffee that members sell to the cooperative as opposed to selling to other buyers. Cazuffi and Moradi () and Meier zu Selhausen () use members’ share capital. Meier zu Selhausen () analyses the decision of 320 female members to buy more than the obligatory shares in their coffee cooperative in Uganda.…”

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How Cooperative Are Savings and Credit Cooperatives in Developing Countries?: An Analysis of Datasets From Uganda

Schmidt

2016

Ann Public Coop Econ

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Building successful savings and credit cooperatives (SACCOs) that actually embody the cooperative principles is a challenge to development agencies. Although SACCOs form the majority of microfinance providers in many developing countries, the most recent literature on microfinance governance and performance has given little reference to the longstanding body of relevant cooperative literature. SACCO representation in microfinance datasets is biased. Drawing on so-far unexploited datasets of Ugandan SACCOs and savings groups, this paper empirically analyses policy debate regarding SACCO-and savings group regulation. The findings point to the relevance of practically implementing the principle of 'cooperation between cooperatives' to ensure effective governance at SACCO level. Moreover, the paper introduces two new measures, based on members' savings and shares, which could become useful tools to track the application of cooperative principles in developing countries, and hence improve evidence-based policy-making for SACCOs.

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Membership Size and Cooperative Performance: Evidence from Ghanaian Cocoa Producers' Societies, 1930–36

Cited by 18 publications

References 22 publications

Do Hybrid Organizational Forms of the Social Economy have a Greater Chance of Surviving? An Examination of the Case of Montreal

Do Hybrid Organizational Forms of the Social Economy have a Greater Chance of Surviving? An Examination of the Case of Montreal

What Determines Women's Participation in Collective Action? Evidence from a Western Ugandan Coffee Cooperative

How Cooperative Are Savings and Credit Cooperatives in Developing Countries?: An Analysis of Datasets From Uganda

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